Gender Roles: A sex-based system of social order designed to maintain female (offspring bearing) subordination to male (non-gestating) control via ritualized behaviors of submission for females (femininity) versus domination behaviors for males (masculinity). Or, a menu of empowering choices accessible through body modifications, threats of violence, and threats of self harm.

Gender Expression: Personality, recast through the lens of sex stereotypes as male or female traits.

Transfeminism: Feminism that “crosses over” into its opposite; Anti-feminism.

God bless Barry Humphries, the comic genius who created Edna Everage. A drag queen himself, he’s buying any part of transgender newthink. Speaking in support of his friend and compatriot Germaine Greer he says:

An uplifting update on the Barry Humphries/Dame Edna story. Alison Pearson, a columnist in the Daily Telegraph, one of the UK’s upmarket broadsheets, writes:

“Dame Edna’s comments about Caitlyn Jenner might be rude, but are they wrong? Edna’s alter ego Barry Humphries shouldn’t have called Jenner “mutilated” – but he’s right about the depressing rise of “new puritanism”… Witness the usual suspects, who immediately called on the performer to apologise for his blasphemy against the secular religion of “diversity and inclusion”.

The fact is most women agree with Germaine Greer. You can’t live for 65 years in the body of a man, as Bruce Jenner did, grow a pair of boobs, put on a bit of lippy and and claim that overnight – ta-da! – you’re female. Being a woman is made up of a billion small things since you were born a girl; it’s more about emotions and experiences than it is about breasts and genitalia.

It must be absolute hell to feel you were born in the wrong body. Let’s be glad that the stigma is being lifted.

But it’s not right that the rest of us should be cowed into agreeing with something we instinctively have doubts about just because we’re scared of falling foul of the Tolerance Police. (Notice how grossly intolerant are those who preach tolerance to us!)

“You can’t describe the world as it is any more,” says Barry Humphries. And that’s not just sad, it’s dangerous.”

Meanwhile, Rebecca Room, described as the BBC’s leading transgender actress (I think they may mean only), says Barry Humphries should apologise for ‘retrograde’ comments, or lose his BBC radio show.

The Telegraph is running an online poll on whether or not the satirist should apologise. A massive 70% say not, which is cheering.

It seems British people in the UK aren’t as mindlessly accepting of the transagenda as one might fear, and this is partly because there’s definitely a backlash against the current insistence on avoiding offence. From no-platforming of widely known and respected feminists to removing key texts from university courses on the grounds that they might be “triggering”, people are realising we’ve got into the position where there’s a very real threat to freedom of speech. A judge has just thrown out the case against a Belfast evangelist for anti-Muslim hate speech. He said courts must be “careful not to criminalize speech which, however contemptible, is no more than offensive. It is not the task of criminal law to censor offensive utterances.”

@ Sophie – That’s fantastic. I think that the attack on freedom of speech and the curtailing of debate is what I find most abominable about this movement. People are starting to rebel and that’s good. 400 years of the Enlightenment and now we are told what to think and not think, say and not say.

Baby:
noun, plural: babies
1. a flattering term for a sexy feminine person walking down the street. 2. a newborn animal; an infant or small child. 3. in humans, the offspring of a transman, genderqueer, agender, bigender, et al., person or persons, involving a not-well-understood process of friction, frisson, or exchange of ideas between two or more deeply felt, publicly validated, and legally protected, gender identities.
See also: cabbage patch, stork, nucleus of the pre optic area, queer theory.

(*Not making this shit up. Dude was bragging about how he experienced stomach cramps and finally got his first period on tumblr, complete with his creepy Stepford wife fans fawning over him. Turned out he had the stomach flu.)

One regular NY Times commenter, when commenting on NYT articles about trans*, keeps mentioning his MTT “friend”. He tells how this person monthly bleeds from “her” anus. He insists this means “she” is menstruating. Case closed – “she” is female!

Seriously? These dudes really are their own worse enemies, along with their enablers. I agree with Roslyn; it might be cancer.

This reminds me of that South Park episode where the boys think that they hit puberty and have started their periods because they got a virus that causes rectal bleeding and none of the adults told them that periods were only for females.

‘Mother’: human person who identifies as feminine on the inside. Genetically connected offspring may or may not be present. Often found inside the home, specifically in kitchens baking things, dusting things. Adept at giving wise homilies, blowing noses. Never to be found in public spaces, except maybe at quaint market places at dawn, buying cabbages etc.

Plumage: pinnies, mob caps, often found with faint layer of flour over body. When spotted outside the home *rare* this shy creature can be seen in ‘the garden’ wearing wide-brimmed straw hats and pruning roses/plucking gerberas. Sometimes attends school runs to pick up children.

Food: tea, victoria sponges. Possibly a sherry at Christmas *never* gin or cask wine (sign of a mother gone to the bad).

Typical song: Intro: Why is your child looking at me like that?
Main theme (repeat)
Transphobia!! That little f**ke’s* gonna get kicked in the head.

1. exertion of verbal force [by way of words (e.g., “no,” “not true”), full sentences, essays, etc.], in the form of questions, opinions, firm disagreement, or intellectual self-defence, and which is typically perpetrated by faithless, disobedient women or curious, confused children.
2. referring to a man, who has made an effort to accessorize, as “he” or “him.”
3. something males engage in every day (i.e., male-pattern violence) causing death, injury and trauma to women, children, and other men, but which is usually and indirectly caused by women thinking the wrong thoughts.
See also: misgendering, critical thinking, feminism, speech

Does this guy have a press agent?!? Or does he just live on the internet. Total coincidence but just yesterday I was looking up something I read about — a trend using semi colons as tattoos for depressed people and I googled it and opened the first link — below — as I scrolled and thought it an interesting if millennial idea — when I noticed a name I recognized from GT! Sure enough there was a huge quote about dysphria and suffering from this same trans person! Am I being haunted?!? Is this person a pod?!? A replicant?!? Sheesh!